Moe C
Thu, 11/13/2025 – 17:20
Like Paul, and so many others, a submit of mine has been used as a supply for a chatbot reply. It is a public discussion board, understood, however I do not like this one bit. Not one bit, I inform ya.
Assume I am going to go reside within the backyard shed for awhile.
Some time again, I used to be asking Grok about some baking element, and observed that it listed TFL as one among its sources.
Generally a chatbot goes on an web search, identical as you or I’d. And generally I’ve observed that the content material of a web page does not help what the chatbot mentioned. So this does not essentially imply it was educated on all of the TFL posts. In truth, the underlying LLM typically does not know the place its info got here from. Similar to most of us…
TomP
I get what you are saying. It is the thought of something semi-relevant we have posted anyplace on-line being discovered and offered to the world (so to talk) in a way more environment friendly method that an outdated net browser might do. I wish to toil in relative obscurity. After all, we all know that something that is posted can come again to chew, as many cancelees have discovered. This submit of mine that was used as a source–it opened with a remark about my husband. The remark was innocuous, but it surely gave me the willies seeing it on a chatbot.
A Davey reply is perhaps: do not wish to be seen, do not submit. Take pleasure in.
This thread reinforces my strategy to posting on boards. I often attempt to restrict the quantity of non-public information I embrace in a submit to try to stay nameless as doable on the web. I’ve additionally refused to have any Meta (Fb, Instagram), X, or different social media accounts. For essentially the most half, these websites do extra hurt than good. I do have a Flickr account as a result of there are a number of good photographers on it, particularly posting historic and present railroad images.
One downside I do have is that there are some people and industrial entities that submit solely on FB or Instagram. For instance, Lance (@albacore) just lately posted a hyperlink to Ian Lowe’s sourdough guidelines on Instagram. I am interested in what Ian has to say, however I can not view the submit or all of the feedback to see the whole dialogue. However I am prepared to forego that inconvenience to maintain my on-line profile low.
I am a lot the identical method. I used to be capable of learn Lance’s submit despite the fact that I’ve no account. After all, that put my laptop’s IP deal with into Instagram’s logs, however that can occur with most websites you go to. It additionally put an Instagram cookie on my system however I’ve eliminated it. I not do that with FaceBook, although.
If I needed to affix any social community, I might give a Mastodon server a strive. However I do not really feel impelled.
How did you handle to learn the submit? I wasn’t profitable at seeing something.
I simply went to the URL. I usually use a javascript blocker and I needed to permit the 2 Instagram addresses, then I might see the web page. A login field popped up however I simply closed it with the shut field within the higher proper nook. I needed to enlarge it to learn Ian’s two strains, Oh, sure, that is on a Home windows laptop however I doubt that it issues. The particular browser is Zen, an offshoot of Firefox. I simply tried it in Vivaldi, which is an offshoot of Chrome, and I might learn the web page there, too.
